Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 60, Issue 8 , Pages 904-912 , August 2007

Double-pedicle abdominal perforator free flaps for unilateral breast reconstruction: new horizons in microsurgical tissue transfer to the breast

Received 26 June 2006 ,Accepted 6 February 2007.

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☆ Presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS), 24–26 May 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.

PII: S1748-6815(07)00157-X

doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2007.02.016

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery
Volume 60, Issue 8 , Pages 904-912 , August 2007

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